Let's make a silly experiment.
For every like this post receives in the next 24 hours, I will post one tip for heuristic/bot programming contests.

I will start posting these as a thread in ~1h from now.

I could talk about those things for days, so bring it on! This is going to be a long ride 😅

Small disclaimer first: I'm limited to 280 characters per tip. Sometimes it's going to be hard to squeeze 15 years of experience into a single tweet. A lot of details are going to be left out, etc.